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Despite heavy rain and strong winds, campaigners staged a demonstration outside RAF Menwith Hill in North Yorkshire on Sunday (October 25), calling for the closure of the military intelligence base

Plans to extend the opening of The Flower Belt, a pick-your-own flower farm between Harrogate and Ripon, have received support from members of the public despite the venue breaching planning rules during its first season

Opposition continues to grow to plans for a six-building poultry farm at York Gate Farm, near Melmerby, north of Ripon, which could house up to 360,000 chickens at a time and produce around 2.7 million birds annually, despite the developer submitting new information aimed at easing concerns over the disposal of thousands of tonnes of chicken manure

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Part of Hallam Land's pre-planning consultation on Burley Bank, a proposed new housing development between Skipton Road and Killinghall in Harrogate.

Snape Community Primary School in Bedale and Thornton Watlass Church of England Primary School in Ripon could be merged into a single school operating across both sites under a plan to secure their future and keep them legal

Knaresborough West Councillor Matt Walker and Knaresborough East Councillor Hannah Gostlow with Steve and Simon, who oversee the management of public toilets across North Yorkshire, at the refurbished Conyngham Hall Car Park public toilets

Lib Dem MPs highlight national concerns about maternity care with Harrogate MP Tom Gordon pictured in the back row, centre.

Plans to redevelop Bramham House, a derelict former children's home near Wetherby, into 45 flats and houses have been approved after the building stood empty for decades

Campaigners fighting plans for an asylum centre at Linton-on-Ouse have called for a Treasury investigation amid claims the facility could cost taxpayers more than £270 million despite potentially operating for just two years

Concern over Tewit Well - “Harrogate has some astounding heritage assets but they are being allowed to rot," claimed Harrogate Civic Society.

Repairs to the Grade II-listed West Lodge Monument in Wetherby have been approved to address deteriorating stonework and help secure its long-term future

Coun Peter Lacey, Leader of the Liberal Democrats on North Yorkshire Council who represents Harrogate’s Coppice Valley & Duchy division.

Ripon MP Sir Julian Smith has written to North Yorkshire Council urging a review of how businesses are notified about road closures and involved in decisions over signage

Former Tory government minister Steve Baker has joined Suffrago, a Harrogate-based, AI-powered political technology firm.

Yorkshire Water has admitted a £1.5 million scheme aimed at dramatically reducing storm overflow discharges into the River Ure in Ripon has not performed as expected

Knaresborough Town Council says it has been encouraged by the first month of running the town's historic Wednesday market, with new traders signing up and plans already being developed for its long-term future

Mayor of York and North Yorkshire, David Skaith, says that better public bus services could provide a long-term solution to some of the problems facing families following controversial changes to school transport in North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire Council has warned it faces a major challenge to draw up a blueprint that will determine where thousands of new homes are built across the county within a tight government-imposed timetable

York and North Yorkshire Mayor David Skaith says bus franchising could allow profits from successful routes to be reinvested into services across York and North Yorkshire, despite concerns over the cost of supporting rural routes

Tony Collins (left), chief executive of Herriot Hospice Homecare, Just ‘B’ and Saint Michael’s Hospice, and Emma Johnson, chief executive of St Leonard’s Hospice in York, addressed North Yorkshire Council’s health scrutiny committee over funding and governance challenges facing end-of-life care

Questions have been raised over how long a proposed asylum centre at the former RAF Linton-on-Ouse base could actually operate after it emerged the site could be closed for the site to be redeveloped in less than three years

Public toilets at Knaresborough bus station have been temporarily closed following a spate of vandalism and anti-social behaviour, with North Yorkshire Council introducing earlier closing times across the town's public conveniences

A public consultation is expected to be launched on the future of Kirkgate, as campaigners renew calls for greater pedestrianisation of the historic Ripon street

A contract worth an estimated £350,000 is set to be awarded by North Yorkshire Council to reconstruct the collapsed retaining wall at Knaresborough’s Viaduct Terrace

Tony Collins, chief executive of Saint Michael’s Hospice in Harrogate, has warned that vital hospice services across North Yorkshire could face cuts without urgent action to address a growing funding crisis

A public consultation could be held on proposals to pedestrianise Kirkgate, which runs between the city centre and Ripon Cathedral, during the daytime and summer evenings

The “slight irony” of North Yorkshire Council using a picture of Knaresborough’s Viaduct Terrace before its collapse to advertise for its new chief executive has been pointed out as residents continue to press for the landmark to be repaired

A vacant building at Lady Elizabeth Hastings Church of England Primary School in Collingham near Wetherby could be converted into a nursery for up to 32 children under new plans

A proposed 1,200-bed asylum centre at RAF Linton-on-Ouse would give a small rural community “city-sized problems overnight” without the resources to deal with them, campaigners have claimed

North Yorkshire Police are preparing for the possibility of “regular, sustained and significant protest activity” if controversial plans to house asylum seekers at the former RAF Linton-on-Ouse go ahead

More than 500 people from Afghanistan have now been resettled in North Yorkshire, according to a new report outlining progress with the county’s refugee programmes

Meet Barack Obama with £2,000 photo packages and other options at Belfast, Glasgow and Manchester.

North Yorkshire Council has launched a fresh consultation on its controversial school transport policy - prompting campaigners to question whether the authority will listen to residents this time

David Skaith, Mayor of York and North Yorkshire, has said North Yorkshire's bus services are in a "mess" after years of underinvestment

North Yorkshire is one of only a few in England that does not have any fixed cameras and instead relies on mobile speed vans

Residents are being invited to share their views on proposed changes to how North Yorkshire Council provides home to school travel to eligible pupils with the launch of a consultation

A historic building at 21 Market Place in Wetherby town centre is set to be converted into six retail units under plans to safeguard its long-term future

North Yorkshire Council officials have acknowledged the growing disruption caused by roadworks in Harrogate and Knaresborough

Almost 2,000 people have signed a petition calling for urgent action to repair a landslip on Viaduct Terrace in Knaresborough amid fears further deterioration this winter could make the problem much worse

Visits to North Yorkshire’s libraries have risen by six per cent in a year, with almost two million trips made to branches across the county

Knaresborough Town Council has taken over the running of the town's historic market in what has been described as "a significant milestone" for the community

Plans for up to 150 new homes on green belt land south of Smithy Close and west of Thirkhill Drive and the A61 in Pannal near Harrogate would help address a severe shortage of housing in the area, according to the developer behind the scheme

Plans have been submitted to expand Reynard Crag Holiday Park, near High Birstwith in Harrogate, to meet growing demand for more spacious and private rural holiday accommodation

Sir Alec Shelbrooke, Conservative MP for Wetherby and Easingwold, has accused the Prime Minister of engaging in “class warfare” over suggestions that asylum seekers should be housed in middle-class areas as he stepped up his opposition to plans for a migrant centre at former RAF Linton-on-Ouse

Four North Yorkshire MP's, Sir Alec Shelbrooke, Tom Gordon, Julian Smith and Kevin Hollinrake, have called on new Prime Minister Andy Burnham to make the long-awaited dualling of the A64 a priority for his government